America’s Vanishing Worker: The Truth Behind The “Recovery” Propaganda
The biggest paradox of the so-called US recovery is that in the same report in which the US Department of Labor reported that the US unemployment has dropped to a depression-low 5.4%, a level...
View ArticleA Portrait Of The Classical Gold Standard
Submitted by Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna via The Mises Institute, "The world that disappeared in 1914 appeared, in retrospect, something like our picture of Paradise," wrote the economist Cecil Hirsch...
View ArticleSilver Bullion Buying Outstripping Supply As JP Morgan ($JPM) Buys
Silver Bullion Buying Outstripping Supply on Solar Energy Demand - Silver one of most undervalued assets in world today- Fundamentals for silver market very strong- Total demand for silver outweighed...
View ArticleBefore You Buy That Rothko – How The CIA Covertly Nurtured Modern Art As A...
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, For decades in art circles it was either a rumour or a joke, but now it is confirmed as a fact. The Central Intelligence Agency used American...
View ArticleSteen Jakobsen Warns, Brace For The Next Recession
Submitted by Saxobank's Steen Jakobsen via TradingFloor.com, Steen Jakobsen's first major trading strategy change since 2013… And here's why… Significant changes to our JABA model's long-term outlook...
View Article“New Silk Road” Could Change Global Economics Forever, Part 1
Submitted by Robert Berke via OilPrice.com, Part 1: The New Silk Road Beginning with the marvelous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road has never ceased to entrance the...
View ArticleForget “Game Theory”– Yanis Varoufakis Introduces “Hope Theory”
Authored by Yanis Varoufakis, originally posted at Project Syndicate, On September 6, 1946 US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes traveled to Stuttgart to deliver his historic “Speech of Hope.” Byrnes’...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 5
Europe shares set for worst week of 2015 (Reuters) Jobs Report Not Likely to Trigger June Rate Hike (Hilsenrath) U.S. jobs market seen firming despite lackluster growth (Reuters) Gross Says Bond Rout...
View Article“Go East, Young Firm”: Chinese Companies Drop New York Listings, Return Home
China’s equity market bubble has become the stuff of legend recently, as millions of newly-minted day traders, record margin debt, liberalized cross-border flows, and the inclusion of China A shares in...
View ArticleThe Legend Of The Almighty American Consumer
Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com, According to an article today from Bloomberg, Now quite clearly the claim and the chart are both ridiculous but that said, this brings up a good...
View ArticleRenTech Uses “Amazing” Legal Trick To Help Employees Dodge Retirement Taxes
Jim Simons’ Renaissance Technologies and its internal HFT fund Medallion are no strangers to questions about tax avoidance. Last July, a Senate subcommittee report alleged that Renaissance, with the...
View ArticleBlack Box Trading: Why They All “Blow-Up”
Submitted by Dominique Dassault of Global Slant “We Are All Doing The Same Thing” I recently listened to a podcast with some all-star [there are awards for everything now] “Black Box” equity trader. It...
View ArticleBlack Box Trading – Why They All Blow Up
Submitted by Dominique Dassault via GlobalSlant.com, “We Are All Doing The Same Thing” I recently listened to a podcast with some all-star [there are awards for everything now] “Black Box” equity...
View ArticleChart Of The Day: Bulls Better Hope It’s Different This Time
If earnings are the mother’s milk of stock bull markets, then the endless supply of talking heads bloviating on the next leg of the stock market rally being driven by a post Q1 renaissance in earnings...
View ArticleSmall Business Optimism Crashes To 15 Month Lows
With all hopes and dreams of economic renaissance in America pinned on small businesses (see ADP’s recent gains), today’s data from the NFIB will strike fear in the heart of the wealth-effect-creating...
View ArticleDe-Dollarization – Mapping The Ruin Of A Reserve Currency
The dollar has been a stalwart of international trade over the majority of the last century. Around the time of the formation of the Eurozone, it reached its recent peak at 71.0% of official foreign...
View ArticleJapan Inc Rocked By Massive Accounting Fraud: Toshiba CEO Quits After...
While Abenomics has been an unmitigated disaster for Japan’s ordinary population, where the soaring stock market has benefited the top decile of the population while everyone has been slammed by a...
View ArticleThe Middle East Nuclear Power Play No One Is Talking About
Submitted by Melissa Hersh via OilPrice.com, With all eyes currently transfixed on Iran’s nuclear future, there is seemingly little attention being paid to another landmark Middle Eastern nuclear...
View ArticleThe Fed’s Circular Logic Exposed In 1 Simple Chart
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners, I typically stay away from sentiment indicators and measures of “confidence” not just because they are of dubious construction but they...
View ArticleThe Biggest Problem in the US Economy Today
The biggest problem in the US economy today is the death of entrepreneurialism. The number of self-employed Americans is at an all time low. It is not coincidence that this record was set at the same...
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